Love the earth and sun and the animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Have patience and indulgence toward the people, Go freely with powerful uneducated persons, And with the young, and with the mothers or families, Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem... And have the richest fluency, not only in its words, But in the silent lines of its lips and face, And between the lashes of your eyes, and In every motion and joint of your body. ~ Walt Whitman ~ Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress/2015/01/20/dismiss-whatever-insults-your-own-soul/
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